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Using Lab Mode To Remove Compression Artifacts From Small Or Highly-Compressed Photos
June 26, 2011
In this tutorial I go over how to use Photoshop's Lab color mode to smooth out and help remove compression artifacts from images that are either really small, or have been saved with way too much compression for their own good.
Learning Canvas From Scratch, Dealing With Pixels
June 17, 2011
With all the new emerging web technologies, now would be a great time to start learning something new. This tutorial covers Canvas, and the basics of pixel manipulation.
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Removing iStock Photo Watermarks For Use In Comps and Roughs
June 05, 2011
In this tutorial, I cover a quick way to take the iStock watermark off the smaller roughs so they aren't distracting on your roughs and comps. This is not for stealing photos. Repeat, this is NOT for stealing. This technique provides a nicer looking small rough for use in comps, it does not remove the watermark completely, nor should you aspire to do so.
Surrealistic Room Photo Manipulation
April 03, 2011
In this tutorial, we will be creating a surrealistic room with realistic water as its floor, real clouds as its wallpaper with a clock on the wall and a boat on the water floor. We will learn a lot of technical aspects like visualizing and creating a perspective using the ruler and the transform tools especially the distort tool, creating realistic waves using the brush tool and two wave brush sets, using brush textures and apply it to the walls to make them realistic. Then we would be creating shadows using the brush tool and the burn tool. Finally we would make the boat look like it really is running and producing waves in its wake.
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Basic Use Of Actions To Repeat Tasks in Photoshop
April 03, 2011
This simple tutorial shows you how to use actions in Photoshop to repeat simple tasks multiple times to save you the hassle of doing it manually. This is filed under Illustrator as well, as the actions work the same way in Illustrator.
Clicking Layers To Load Complex Selections in Photoshop
April 03, 2011
This is a quick tutorial on how to use combinations of ctrl+alt+shift to load various types of selections based on layer data.
A Couple Things You Might Not Know About The Crop Tool in Photoshop
April 03, 2011
This is a real short tutorial on some quick time saving things you can do with the crop tool that a lot of people don't seem to use.
Better Understanding Photoshop’s Use Of The Pen Tool
April 03, 2011
In this tutorial I show some of the differences between the pen tool in Illustrator (which we love), and the pen tool in Photoshop (which we don't). This tutorial covers a couple basic functions.
A Quick Way To Set Up Obvious Bleeds In Your Document in Photoshop
April 03, 2011
In this tutorial, I show a quick hint on how to set up your Photoshop files so they have accurate bleeds for when placing them in publication programs, like InDesign.
Creating Crazy Fractal Effects in Photoshop and Apophysis
April 03, 2011
In this tutorial I go over how to use Apophysis with Photoshop and create some really crazy lighting effects like those seen in my piece "A Lovecracking Bottleneck".